 | Bruce A. Clark - History - 1990 - 292 pages
...A. Macdonald, in a memorandum dated 3 January 1887, indicated that "the great aim of our legislation has been to do away with the tribal system and assimilate the Indian people in all respects with the other inhabitants of the Dominion, as speedily as they are fit for the change."7 Sir Wilfrid Laurier,... | |
 | Peter S. Schmalz - History - 1991 - 388 pages
...views of 'progressive' chiefs such as McGregor when he stated that 'the great aim of our legislation has been to do away with the tribal system and assimilate the Indian people in all respects with the other inhabitants of the Dominion, as speedily as they are fit for the change.' McGregor observed that... | |
 | John Meisel - History - 1995 - 398 pages
...Zealand (Toronto: Oxford University Press 1992), 40. Sir John A. Macdonald agreed, stating in 1887: "The great aim of our civilization has been to do...the Dominion, as speedily as they are fit for the change" (39). 22 Noel Dyck, What Is the Indian 'Problem"?: Tutelage and Resistance in Canadian Indian... | |
 | Rosemary J. Coombe - Law - 1998 - 484 pages
...prominently in Native discussions of cultural appropriation. In 1887, Sir John A. Macdonald declared, "The great aim of our civilization has been to do...tribal system and assimilate the Indian people in all respects."115 In 1920, Superintendent-General Duncan Campbell Scott was even more to the point: "I... | |
 | Anne McGillivray, Brenda Comaskey - Social Science - 1999 - 220 pages
...occurred (JR Miller, 1989). 'The great aim of our civilization,' orated Sir John A. Macdonald in 1887, 'has been to do away with the tribal system and assimilate...the Dominion, as speedily as they are fit for the change' (Miller, 1989: 189). By the early twentieth century, resistance and the successful marginalization... | |
 | Troy R. Johnson - Law - 1999 - 334 pages
...beneficiaries.161 As Prime Minister Sir John A. MacDonald put it in 1887, "the great aim of [such] legislation has been to do away with the tribal system and assimilate the Indian people in all respects with the other inhabitants of the dominion, as speedily as they are fit for the change."162 In the United States,... | |
 | Bruce A. Clark - Electronic books - 1999 - 406 pages
...1887 (2ob) at 37 in a Memorandum dated January 3, 1887, as follows: The great aim of our legislation has been to do away with the tribal system and assimilate the Indian people in all respects with the other inhabitants of the Dominion, as speedily as they are fit for the change. To ensure that no one... | |
 | James Rodger Miller - Social Science - 2000 - 510 pages
...assimilation to a Euro-Canadian pattern. The 'great aim of our legislation,' Sir John Macdonald noted, 'has been to do away with the tribal system and assimilate...the Dominion, as speedily as they are fit for the change.'1 Canadian policy after Confederation became steadily more interfering and coercive as Ottawa... | |
 | Ward Churchill - History - 2002 - 470 pages
...beneficiaries.161 As Prime Minister Sir John A. MacDonald put it in 1887, "the great aim of [such] legislation has been to do away with the tribal system and assimilate the Indian people in all respects with the other inhabitants of the dominion, as speedily as they are fit for the change."162 In the United States,... | |
 | James Rodger Miller - Social Science - 2004 - 320 pages
...an impatient Prime Minister John A. Macdonald put it more bluntly: The great aim of our legislation has been to do away with the tribal system and assimilate...the Dominion, as speedily as they are fit for the change.' By 1920, the deputy minister was even more brutally frank. 'I want to get rid of the Indian... | |
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the great aim of [such] legislation has been to do away with the tribal system and assimilate the Indian people in all respects with the other inhabitants of the dominion... 
